Solved A Win 10 Text Readability Issue

Hi

Despite all reasonable attempts to increase the font size in the menus of Win 10's Window Explorer, as far as it applies to the eyes Mother Nature bequeathed to me, the pre-existing font size remains so pettifoggingly weeny as to be almost described as mitochondrical. A follow-on question is why does it have to be this way? I don't suppose there's a solution out there that can resolve this long-running issue, but if there is I'd be hugely grateful if someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks a lot.

Hi

I've already tried all these options, and while they affect font sizes elsewhere in the system, they still do nothing for the text in Win Explorer, sorry to relate.

Apart from anything else, I'm now thinking of returning the laptop to my local PC menders and getting them to restore it to its original Win 8.1 setup (I had Office 2003 Pro installed it then, software I understand. I just can't get to grips with how it is now. Win 10 is an out and out horror show for me. It soaks up memory for no good reason. . . and, boy, don't I hate and loathe that ribbon in Word 2007. . . so clunky!)

Thanks for getting back to me, all the same.

Like I've already stated, I've gone to Ease of Access, increased the font size by using the slider. . . and while everything fontlike increases elsewhere, the fonts in Win Explorer don't budge by a nanometer. I give up

I'm due next Monday to have my local PC repairers swap my laptop's hard drive for a SSD (in part to ease the installation of MS updates - another chronic headache). Hopefully then the repairers will resolve this font issue once and for all. I'll provide feedback on that one.

PS. Nowadays my disenchantment with MS is such that I'm becoming interested in switching to Linux over the long-term, although I understand installing this OS isn't for the faint-hearted.

The limitations you suggest about Linux Mint - ref "same issues", which I take to mean undersized fonts where it matters - makes for depressing reading. It's almost as if there's a kind of unconscious descrimination taking place by software developers, many of whom, I guess, have yet to enter their thirties; that's to say they're still blessed with 20/20 vision, a level of optical acuity which for a sizeable chunk among the older generations is nowadays a distant memory.

The one silver lining this end is that the fonts on my standalone desktop, with 2003 Office Pro (and not much else) sitting on top of Win 8.1 Pro, is pretty much fully scalable across the board. Win 8.1 isn't brilliant, of course. But in terms of personalisation, limited though it is compared to its forebears it's still a world away from the many restrictive practices and no-go areas that festoon my laptop's edition of Win 10, that's for sure. Excuse the extended bleat.

On reflection I wonder if these font scalability issues may be due to having Windows 10 Home edition installed on my laptop, as opposed to Professional. If my memory is to be trusted, the last time I had MS home edition of anything (if it was even called that?) was back in the days of Win 2000, and I seem to recall it too being rather basic.

As much as I dislike the ribbon, I'm able to use it these days more or less intuitively. . . well, sort of. My dislike of it, based on how it performs on my laptop, is due to its clunkiness and many configuration issues; but there again the cause of that may stem - at least in part - from the OS being a home edition. I simply don't know, having never knowingly used Win 10 Pro in the past. So I'll say no more.

I appreciate your commiserations, Bruce. Thanks also to Bastet and Rustys.

Gray